A Brief Overview

When I was younger and people would ask the “What do you want to do when you grow up?” question, I didn’t have to think very hard about the answer. All I was interested in then was climbing trees, Lego & The Lion King. So I would tell them, in my proudest voice “I’m going to draw cartoons”. Which of course was always followed by a patronising pat on the head…

Somewhere between then and now, I have designed and animated for commerical clients such as Red Bull, Twitter and BetVictor.

EMPLOYMENT

2011-2012

Freelancer:

Red Bull: Canimation 2011

Lead Animator, Editor, Sound Designer, Compositor

I created a TV advert for Red Bull’s Canimation campaign which was aired across UK TV throughout October 2011.

Red Bull: Sugar Free Advert 2011

Lead Animator, Editor, Sound Designer, Compositor

I worked with Red Bull again a couple of months later on a second advert, this time for their Sugar Free drink.

Twitter’s Twestival 2011

Lead Animator

Working with Sliced Bread Animation Studio, we created a stop-motion advert for Twitter’s Festival ‘Twestival’.

The Campaign for Drawing

Lead Instructor

At the London Festvial of Art, I worked with The Campaign for Drawing running hand-drawn animation workshops for beginners.

2012-2016

BetVictor

Graphic Designer/Animator

I worked at the BetVictor Headquaters in Gibraltar from 2012-2016. My projects varied from Graphic Design (online & print), animation (2d & 3d) for TV/ online, special effects, video editing and illustration.

EDUCATION

2009 – 2012

BA (Hons) Animation

2:1

University of Westminster, London

My degree mainly focused on learning the techniques of traditional hand-drawn animation. This was to give a good foundation of the principals of animation, storytelling, composition and style. After these techniques were established, we started exploring other types of animation to build on this, including digital 2D animation, stop-motion and 3D. The course was highly centred around making us aware of our audiences when designing, and how it can achieve different emotive reactions.

Full CV on Request

Skills

Photoshop

After Effects

Cinema4d

Indesign

Illustrator

Flash

Premier Pro

Final Cut

Other Skills

Sculptris

Dragonframe

London Academy of Film 3 Day Intensive Course (2014)

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I believe that there can always be something new learned in every program or alternative technique of doing it, hence no 100% mark ups.